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ver with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy. An then at last our bliss Full and perfect is. Milton.

Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree. "Blissful solitude." Milton. -- Bliss"ful*ly, adv. -- Bliss"ful*ness, n.

Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton.

Gay; full of gayety; joyous.

The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away. B. Jonson.

The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate. The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which…

A modest girl. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.

A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.

; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves. He maketh the deep to boil like a pot. Job xii. 31.

The Jesuit editors of the "Acta Sanctorum", or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work.

Swollen; puffed out. Thin, and boln out like a sail. B. Jonson.

A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. B. Jonson.

To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Padded breeches. [Obs.] Bombard phrase, inflated language; bombast. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

d. [Obs.] They . . . made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady. B. Jonson.

A good fellow; a jovial companion; a free liver.

re each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and…

warehouse in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs officers.